Afilias Endorses the NETmundial Initiative

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global registry services provider Afilias today
announced its endorsement of the NETmundial Initiative on Internet
governance cooperation. This initiative provides a venue for the global
Internet community to discuss and collaboratively address a range of
emerging policy challenges related to the Internet. The outcomes of this
initiative will improve the existing Internet governance framework.

Afilias supports the modern paradigm for standards where the economics
of global markets, fueled by technological advancements, drive global
deployment of standards regardless of their formal status.

In this paradigm, standards support interoperability, foster global
competition, are developed through an open participatory process, and
are voluntarily adopted globally. These voluntary standards serve as the
building blocks for developing products and services that meet the needs
of the market and the consumer, thereby driving innovation. Innovation,
in turn, contributes to the creation of new markets and the growth and
expansion of existing markets.

For more information about the NETmundial Initiative, please see the
program web
site.

About Afilias

Afilias is
the world’s second largest domain registry, with approximately 20
million names under management. Afilias powers a wide variety of top
level domains, and will soon support hundreds of new TLDs now preparing
for launch, including TLDs for cities, brands, communities and generic
terms. Afilias’ specialized technology makes Internet addresses more
accessible and useful through a wide range of applications, including
Internet domain
registry services, Managed
DNS and mobile
Web services like goMobi® and DeviceAtlas®.